The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-05

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School-Thirty Acres Land in Rad
ishes at Marshallvllle "A Wife's
Strange Premonition Of an Accident
to Her Husband.
GEORGIA
The minerals of Forsyth county await
development.
The North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist church meets at Marietta We'd
nesday.
Atlanta only pays 81 per thousand for
gas. Savannah pays 81, less a discount Of
10 per cent.
Milledgevillei is boasting of negro woman
the mother or grown children, who wears a
lady's No. shoe
The John F. Lang Company, of ITALIA
poosa, has decided to buy $4,000 brick
making machine and outfit
Rev. w. E. Epps, of Mount Airy, has ac-
cepted the invitation of st. Pauls parish in
Albany to spend the winter there.
Cuthbert Liberal: On account of short
crops the farmers generally will commence
work this year with less money, perhaps,
than ever before.
The public school deb6 of Forsyth county
for the year 1887 amounts to $3.50. A, on
which the school fund for the year pays
$50 cents on the dollar
Very near thousand distractions have
been removed from the rivers around
Darien by the government snag-boat
Toccoa during the last month or two.
Jacob Dennard, of Webster, while bring
ing wagon loaded with cotton down hill
near Mr.. PARROTS, in Terrell, fell and the
wagon passed over his leg, breaking it.
Rev. W. J. Pirkle, of Cumming, planted
five and a half acres in tobacco this year,
and made 5, 600 pounds which he is selling
readily at fifteen cents a pound, being al
lowed by law to sell 500 worth at retail.
Mrs. D. T. Sawyer's residence, six miles
from Dawson, was totally destroyed by fire
few nights ago An insurance of $500 on
the building will only partially cover the
loss. All of the household effects were
saved.
John F. Lang, manager of the ITALIA
poosa Malleable Iron Works, writes TO the
Tallapoosa Company, under date Of Nov.
%, that their company is already organized
and that their works will soon be COM
menced.
Near Milledgeville, Thursday, James
Gibson (colored), while hunting, accident
ally shot his leg so badly that amputation
was necessary. After shooting himself he
crawled through the woods for half mile
IN search of assistance.
At Milledgeville it has been rumored for
II. a
there, We're under financial embarrassment.
Mr.. Morris issued an accurate statement
Thursday showing that the firm was in good
condition. His assets are So, 600 and liabii
ties near $4,000
The prospects for good timber season in
Darien were never better During the
month of November there was measured at
the public boom 7,000,00 feet OF square and
scab lumber. Besides this several millions
iaTs a Al,s.
from the up-country mills.
Joe Williams, who resides in the Granger
vile district, pays more taxes than any
other colored man in Macon county. He
owns 800 acres of land, and is hard-work-
ing, law-abiding Old man. He saws he
never had lawsuit of any kind in his life
and lives peaceably with white and black.
At Griffin Friday paper was circlated
among the business men for the purpose of
raising sum of money to offer reward
for the de ection and arrest of the assailant
OF John Mcfarland, on Wednesday night
last. One hundred and fifty dollars was
raised in short time and this reward will
be offered. Mr.. Mcfarland is still alive.
So far, the indications are that Albany
will have very quiet city election next
Monday. The withdrawal of Capt j. T.
Hester left Mayor Voolfolk without oppo-
sition, and if there is any opposition to the
1t has been kept so very quiet that the
Ne10S and Advertiser has not heard of it,
Thirty acres are being planted in radshes
and other vegetables near Marshallville
They will be protected from cold when
necessary. The same ground will be used
for tomatoes in the early spring for ship
ping and canning purposes, Mr. Van
Tassel proposes to add a canning factory to
his evaporating establishment, and will
have thirty acres in tomatoes for his own
use.
Edwin Bates, the head of the Atlanta
firm of Edwin Bates & Co, and a man
whose name has for years been power in
business circles throughout the entire coun-
try, died at his, home in Vermont last Sunday
week and was buried ON Wednesday. Mr..
Bates had been ailing for two years, being
afflicted with dropsy. He leaves wife and
two young children He also had stores at
Charleston, S. c., and New York city
A young man by the name of Erastrs
Horne, who was in Dawson Monday, fon-
died moccasin Stake as if it was a harm
less pet, holding il in his hand and permit
ting 1t to run up his arm and between his
fingers, the snake in the meanwhile licking
out its tongue, but not inhicting any dam
age to the one who was so rash as to fonde
so deadly thing as a snake. The reptile
was only captured the Saturday before.
Alapaha Star: The Spool Cotton rail
road, as it is called, may yet crystalline into
solid fact. The country through which it
will pass is rich in soil and timber and
clever people, and is kissed by breezes as
balmy in winter as ever famed the brow of
mariner on tropical seas, while the sum
mers heat no sunstroke doth cast down.
Sooner or later this road will be built. and
the sooner the better for all concerned-and
especially for Nashville.
D. j. Patrick, who lives a few miles from
Griffin, has a rooster of which he is very
proud. Some time ago hen came off the
nest with brood Of little chicks, and all
went well until the hen was accidentally
killed. The ROSTERS heart was moved when
he saw the orphan chicks roaming around
the baTnyard alone, and he Immediately
took them in charge. He scratches for them,
hovers over them at night, clucks, and in
every other way fills the mother hens
place apparently to the satisfaction of the
orphans.
VIM. Wells, of Dawson, who had his leg
amputated few days ago, is getting better
with strong hopes of his ultimate recovery.
DIR. Hinkle Of Americas, assisted by Drs
Stapleton, of Brentwood, and Clark and
Simpson, of Smithville, performed the op-
Grafton Mr.. Wells, some time ago, had his
arm terribly lacerated by the saws of his
gin, and strange to say, sympathetic con
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